Fountain shaving-brush.



O. B. BLOCK.

FOUNTAIN SHAVING BRUSH.

APPLICATION IILBDFEBJZ 1914.

1,126 693, Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

EH I 15 w /3 r' IQ nome/13g OTTO BLOCK, 0F SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

FOUNTAIN SHAVING-BRUSH.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

Application filed February 17, 1914. Serial No. 819,228.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Orro B. Bnocir. citizen of the United States, residing at Shippensburg, in the county of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fountain Shaving-Brushes, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to improvements in brushes, more particularly to the class of fountain shaving brushes, andhas for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed device whereby the soap material isejected into the interior of the brush as required.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a simply constructed device whereby the soap material in any required quantity is conducted into the brush.

I Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed device including a casing which accomplishes a two-fold function. of a covering for the brush when not in use and as a handle or shell adapted to be arranged over the soap reservoir when the brush is being used.

With these and other objects in View the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred'embodiment of the invention- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved device in closed position or illustrating the arrangement'of the parts when the brush is not in use. Fig; 2 is a vertical sectional view of the improved device arranged for use. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3--3 of Fig. 2.

Corresponding and to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by thesame reference characters.

The improveddevice comprises a cylindrical member including a portion 10 in which the bristles 11 of the brush are socured and another portion 12 which serves as a reservoir or a holder for the soap or other similar materiah The two portions 10 -12 are separated by a diaphragm 13 witha tubular member 1 1- extending through the diaphragm and preferably formed with a divergingor funnel-shaped inner terminal 15 opening into the interior of the portion 12 and extending at the other end for a considerable distance beyond the outer end of like parts are referred 4 the portion 10 and opening into the interior of the bristles as represented in Fig. 2. The reservoir portion 12 is provided with a cap 16 preferably threaded thereon as shown at 17. The tubular portions 10-12 are provided at their meeting points with an external thread 18, the object to be hereafter explained.

Slidably disposed Within the conduit member 14 is an ejector device 19 having a relatively small opening 20 in one end. The ejector member 19 extends into the-interior of the reservoir 12 and is provided with a distributor device formed of a perforated disk 21.

Movably disposed within the ejector device 19 is a plunger 22 of any suitable material and provided with a stem 23 which extends through the ejector member 19 and thence through the cap 16 and is provided with a head 24 by which the stem may be 'moved longitudinally of the device. Surrounding the stem' 23 is a tubular shell 25 which extends at one end through the cap 16 and is provided with a finger grip 26 to enable the member 25 to be actuated as hereafter explained.

Another shell-like tubular member represented at 2'? forms a part of the improved device and is slightly reduced at one end with the reduced portion internally threaded, as shown at 28, and adapted to engage the threads 18 of the inner casing 10-12. At its opposite end the member 27 is threaded to receive a cap 29. 1

'When the device is arranged for use as shown in Fig. 2 the member 27 is disposed over the member 12 and the threads 28 engaged with the threads 18. but when the device is not in use the shell 27 is removed and disposed by its larger end over the reservoir and likewise over the bristles 11 and the threads of the reduced portion 28 engaged with the threads 18 from the opposite end, with the threaded portion at its larger end extending beyond the bristles. The cap 29 is then attached to protect the bristles.

The reservoir 12 is charged with the lather material. preferably in the form of a soap material of cream-like consistency, and

, amount of the soap material. The member 23 is then actuated by pressure applied to the terminal 24 which causes the plunger 22 to eject a certain amount of the soap material into the bristles of the brush. The member 14 isof just sufiicient size to contain a quantity of the soap material sufficient for one shaving, and if more soap material is required the operation is repeated. When thesoap material is exhausted the reservoir 12 can be readily recharged by removing the cap 16. The member 19 fits closely within the member 14so that a comparatively small amount of the soap material enters the member 14.

The soap material is thoroughly protected and guarded, and maintained in perfect sanitary condition. The water does not enter the reservoir from the bristles, as will be obvious.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is: r 1. In a fountain shaving brush, a reservoir having a brush atone end, a feed tube leading from the reservoir into the brush, a hollow ejector device operating in the feed tube and with a contracted opening in its outer end, and a plunger operating in the ejector.

2. In a fountain shaving brush, a reservoir having a brush at one end and a cap at the other end, a feed tube leading from the reservoir into the brush, a hollow ejector device operating in the feed tube, a tubular stem leading from the ejector member and 7 tube, and a 1,12e,ees

operating through the cap, a plunger oper- 4:. In a device of the class described, a

reservoir having a brush at one end and an intermediate threaded portion, a shell having open threaded ends, and a cap for engaging one of the threaded ends of the shell Whereby the shell may be disposed over the brush and engaged by one of its threaded ends with the intermediate threaded portion of the reservoir and engaged by one of its threaded ends 7 with the intermediate thrpladed portion when the brush is to be use 5.. In a fountain shaving brush, a reservoir having a brush at one end, a feed tube leading from the reservoir into the brush, a hollow ejector device operating in the feed plunger operating in the ejector device.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

I OTTO BQBLOGK. [L.s.]

Witnesses:

o. T. MICKnY, W. M. HARRIS, 

